Elements of Style in English
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From: Raffael Cavallaro on 3 May 2010 01:59 On 2010-05-02 23:05:05 -0400, Xah Lee said: > The question, of whether my > writings are above average among professional writers, is absolutely a > question that can be answered with a definitive yes or no OK then, definitively no; they're quite amateurish, and well below the quality produced by most professional writers. warmest regards, Ralph P.S. I don't have time to keep up with your seemingly endless outpourings of inchoate verbiage, so I'll likely make this my last response. -- Raffael Cavallaro
From: Captain Obvious on 3 May 2010 03:34 RC> To the ear of a native speaker, your writing is filled with hiccups. RC> You don't realize this because you haven't internalized english grammar RC> and usage sufficiently to hear it. You think you're communicating in an RC> unimpeded flow, but a native speaker cringes when reading your posts RC> because of the numerous gaffes, errors that one would never hear from a RC> native speaker. Have you ever seen comments on Youtube? "i was doing this when i was tired of waiting my girlfriend to arrive to park,so i was on park road i started to paly this song from my cellphone and started to dance then when i surely wasen't expecting...there she was right behind me i noticed that when i made turn around move and jeesus christ she lolled hard " "ahah? hes a nerdd" Or Yahoo! Answers: "I beg you to answer. I m so desparate?"
From: Tim Bradshaw on 3 May 2010 03:34 On 2010-05-02 23:57:21 +0100, Xah Lee said: > you not only understood it perfectly, so well, in fact, you took the > time to criticize how it is ungrammatical, and accuse me of no basic > understanding of grammar. This, is the communicative success of my > little piece. I didn't understand the last bit at all
From: Stan Brown on 3 May 2010 03:39 Sun, 2 May 2010 22:31:36 -0400 from Raffael Cavallaro <raffaelcavallaro(a)pas.espam.s.il.vous.plait.mac.com>: [addressing Xah Lee] > Please stop trumpeting your broken english as some sort of stylistic > choice. It's not. It's obvious to native speakers that it's not. You > don't *choose* to write "punctuations" instead of "punctuation," or > write sentences with two verbs and no relative pronoun. You just don't > know any better. I think you're being too charitable. These kinds of errors are not matters of idiom or failing to master strange exceptions; they are failure to master basic grammar. The difference between singular ad plural, and the need for a verb to have a subject, are first-semester stuff in any European language. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai...
From: Tim Bradshaw on 3 May 2010 03:38
On 2010-05-03 01:15:14 +0100, His kennyness said: > "[Fowler] opposed all pedantry, and notably ridiculed artificial > grammatical rules without warrant in natural English usage — such as > bans on split infinitives and ending a sentence with a preposition, > rules on the placement of the word only, and distinctions between which > and that. " > > Ewwww. Wrong, wrong, and wronger. I have to agree with Xah here. Fowler was quite a smart person, and he's well worth reading on split infinitives, for instance (to mindlessly ban which is clearly silly) |